SP 2-8-2 790 leads a 57 car westbound freight at Galveston Texas in 1936. Otto's speed estimate was 18 MPH, and he caught it with the rods down. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

New Home. This former UP unit has found a new home with the rarely photographed Charlotte Western Railroad (the official name even though the unit is lettered Charlotte & Western). The CWR... (more)

The Airbnb vacation home we rented in Montana had an outdoor fire pit perfect for hanging out, enjoying a beer and grilling brats over an open fire. An added attraction is a westbound BNSF train g... (more)

A special scheme on C44-9WM #9042 standing by with ballast train W44 at Guaianã yard.

N&W 475, a 4-8-0 "Mastodon" type steam locomotive, leads a Strasburg Railroad train past the Red Caboose Motel and Casey Jones Restaurant on its way back to the Strasburg station after t... (more)

I'm a bit behind the times, so this is my first shot of the famed Reading & Northern NRFF, otherwise known as "America's Freight Train". NRFF is seen crossing the Lehigh River at the aptly named ... (more)

Perhaps it came west to escape the cold. Norfolk Southern's Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage unit, ES44AC 8102, threads its way through the reverse curves at Siberia, in California's Mojave Desert,... (more)

Snow Day Stack Train | Cruising past a cow pasture just north of Westville, OK on a snowy Monday, February 12, 2024 morning, CPKC intermodal train I181 heads north on its way from Mexico to... (more)

Having just been unveiled for a handful of employees and invited guests, Reading & Northern SD40-2 no. 1983 poses outside of the West Cressona paint and restoration shop. The 1983 is the second of... (more)

Following the Big Hole River, UP MPCSB rolls northbound through the La Marche Gulch with no. 1943, "The Spirit of the Union Pacific" veterans unit, in the lead.

Radnor Yd roundhouse at Nashville , Tn

In a view from our Airbnb vacation accommodations, a westbound BNSF unit oil train climbs Winston Hill between Townsend and Winston, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line ... (more)

UP 4014 runs along Highway 26 on the South Morrill Sub after passing through the town of Oshkosh, NE.

A westbound manifest climbs the grade to tunnel 17 near Dorris, California on Southern Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision.

Lots going on in this Minot North Dakota scene on July 11th 1956. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.